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anti-art

anti-art noun: art that is usually exhibited and delivered in a conventional context but that makes fun of serious art or the artistic establishment or challenges the nature of art.

Noun

anti-art (uncountable)

  1. Art that is usually exhibited and delivered in a conventional context but that makes fun of serious art or the artistic establishment or challenges the nature of art.

Origin of anti-art

From anti- + art.

Questions about anti-art

What does anti-art mean?
Anti-art means art that is usually exhibited and delivered in a conventional context but that makes fun of serious art or the artistic establishment or challenges the nature of art.
What part of speech is anti-art?
Anti-art is a noun.

Words near anti-art in the dictionary

  1. anti-apartheidists
  2. anti-aphrodisiac
  3. anti-aphrodisiacs
  4. anti-Arabism
  5. anti-Armenianism
  6. anti-art
  7. anti-Assyrianism
  8. anti-Australianism
  9. anti-authoritarian
  10. anti-authoritarianism
  11. anti-authoritarians

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